ABSTRACT: It is often claimed that the racially
biased Immigration Act of 1924 was passed with the
help of the intelligence testing community of the period.
The claim consists of two components: first,
that the intelligence testing community saw its test
data on social and ethnic differences as favoring a
discriminatory immigration policy and, second, that
Congress relied to some significant extent on the testing
community and/or its data. An examination of
the historical record failed to uncover any support for
either component of the claim. The testing community
did not generally view its findings as favoring
restrictive immigration policies like those in the 1924
Act, and Congress took virtually no notice of intelligence
testing, as far as one can ascertain from the
records and publications of the time. 

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